Rattle
A Wakigng Up Experience
This is a open brief project concerned with creating a 'waking up experience' for the course aesthetics of Interaction. Its a project that tought me that crafting products requires more than function and good looks. Creating experiences that move beyond ‘utility’, experiences that strike deeper into human emotion and perception. That is what, hides under the umbrella term of ‘Aesthetics of Interaction’.
Course
Aesthetics of Interaction
Main Deliverables
Interactive prototype, video
Expertise areas
Creativity & Aesthetics, Technology & Realization
Date
05.09.2024
The final designs from language conveyd a and familiar feedforward. It was seemingly an ordinary neckpillow—Comfortable, compact, unobtrusive... However, there is a catch. When the user puts it on and pulls by the cord, It ‚becomes alive’— announcing its omipetence with a subtle double vibration It remains friendly... for now.
With time the pillow tightens very slowly to increase comfort and increase vibration transfer potential.
When times is up the pillow starts off sofly and playfully (with a buzz at the users resting position). The pillow becomes users worst enemy only the user don’t refuses to wake up—Gradually Increasing vibrations in intensity, frequency and squeezing discomfort. It takes breaks to ‚understand the users response’ and respond to users actions (head movments) accordingly (depending on the level of ‚cooperation’).
Considering aesthetics of interaction is considering the product holistically. It is not nessesarly designing wth more intention, it is tied to a processes of discovery (i.e. it processes used to understand the world around us, our own senses, the design material and interaction possibilities). Designing aesthetics of interaction should be coupled with prototyping and embodied aproaches leading to greater attunement to how the design artifact could be exprienced in reality— sequentially leading to more intuitive, (dialed in) end-products that have the oportunity to go beyond mere commodities.